Hello and welcome to The Daring Cardmakers blog!
We are a team of card-makers from the UK, mainland Europe and India who'll try to inspire and encourage you to make some wonderful cards.
Every Friday at about 10am UK time, one of our design team will post a new dare/challenge, along with our creations to get you inspired.
So go on, give it a try - we dare you!
Leave us a comment with a link to your card so that we can view your lovely creations too!

Friday, March 25, 2011

A big Thank You to everyone who joined in with Jo's "Going Postal" challenge last week - what a fun dare - and what a lot of fabulous cards we saw!

This week it's me (Kathy) setting the dare and I'm inviting you along to

The Book Club

I'd simply like you to take your inspiration from Books - and you can do this any way you wish.You could make a card in the form of a book, make a background using a page (or scanned page) from a book, use an excerpt from a book on your card as a background or focal piece, or use an actual story/title/book to inspire your card.If you choose to use a specific book for your inspiration, don't forget to let us know which it was.

Please come back and leave a link here to tell us where we can see your creation and we'll pop along to visit.We've added a Linky gadget this week to see how we get on with it- but please leave a comment too

Here are some ideas from the DT Library this week - if you visit our personal blogs you'll find out more about our own inspiration!

Friday, March 18, 2011

Hi all, it's Jo here with this week's dare, a huge thank you to all who joined in with Vanessa's Home Baked dare, the cards were amazing!

Going Postal!Postage stamps are an up and coming trend in the crafting world so I thought this week it would be fun to have cards incorporating them! Real (postage) stamps, die cuts, hand cut, rubber stamps or even punched ones. Cards for any occasion but they must have a postage stamp somewhere!

Friday, March 04, 2011

Thank you all for sharing all the crafty bargains you found to use on your "Poundshop Pretties" cards last week. There are some great bargain-hunters around that's for sure, and we saw lots of wonderful cards made with the new goodies.

It's always sad to wave "farewell" to our Guest Designers but last week saw Chrissie's final creation as our Fabulous February GD though we hope she'll still be playing along with the challenges each week. Thank you for sharing your wonderful cards with us throughout February, Chrissie, you've given so much inspiration.

Today though, we are very excited to introduce our Amazing March Guest Designer, we're thrilled to announce that Zuzana Obert is joining us for the whole of the coming month, Welcome to the team Zuzana! We know you are going to love seeing her work on here over the next few weeks.

As it's the first Friday of the month we return to our series of Flowers of the Month challenges and we'd like you to take inspiration from the flowers associated with the month of March, which are

the Daffodil and the Jonquil

- perfect flowers for reminding us (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) that Spring is just around the corner!We'd love to see what you can create using one or both of these flowers as the starting point for your crafting , you can use the inspiration of these flowers in whatever way takes your fancy!We're looking forward to seeing your creations, so please come and let us know where we can see them.

To start the ball rolling, here are some Daffodil and Jonquil cards from the DT, we hope you'll enjoy seeing them and will feel inspired to join in with us this week

Daring Cardmakers

Current DCM Designers

Currrent Guest Designer

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We are happy to share our designs here in the hope that they inspire you to develop your own ideas. However, please respect our right not to have our designs copied or "lifted" - direct copying of any design shown on this blog or our personal blogs is an infringement of copyright.

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